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breaking a pane out of a window. In Scotland they still made
no great noise or stir ; but it was well said by a Highlander, who,
being upbraided by a Southron for not joining his voice to those
of his oppressed brethren, made him this answer ; " Hersel not
say mooch, but she can yerk at te thinking." Her nain sel
thought more deeply on the subject than they that made more
din about it.
But the Jacobite faction was now strengthened most of all by
the addition, nominally at least, of the greater part of the Tories,
who, finding themselves totally excluded from all share in the
administration, and exposed to the insolence of a faction which
they utterly despised, some began to wish in earnest for a revolu-
tion ; others leaned to the Stuart side only, perhaps, as an artifice
to check the intolerable insolence of the other party. Strong
remonstrances were now sent to the Chevalier, to induce him to
come over, heightened by the eagerness and extravagance of the
writers. Indeed, the clamours, tumults, and general conversation
of the people, countenanced any assertion of that nature, almost,
that could be made.
James had therefore, once more, recourse to the French king,
who had always been the stay and refuge of his family. Lewis
favoured him in secret, but he found himself bound down by his
late engagements with England. He had but a few years before
fitted him out with a well-appointed fleet; had presented him
with a sword studded with costly diamonds ; taken an affectionate
farewell of him, and repeated what he had said to his father, that
" he hoped never to see him again." He now supplied him pri-
vately with sums of money to prepare a small armament in the
port of Havre, which was equipped in the name of Depine
d'Anicaut; and, without all doubt, his design was to assist him
more effectually, in proportion as the English should manifest
their attachment to the house of Stuart.
But by this time the rebellion was actually begun in Scotland.
The discontents occasioned here by the treaty of union, instead of
being appeased, had still gained ground. The people deemed it a
national grievance, and the friends of the Stuarts did not fail to
encourage the aversion ; and though their hopes of dissolving that
treaty had been baffled by the arts of the Whigs, still they had
not laid aside the design of attempting something of consequence
in favour of their regretted prince. From this intent no previous
misfortune or bad omen could divert them. The Highlands lay as
it were bedded on tinder, and wanted but a spark to set the whole
kingdom in a flame. This coal was soon furnished to them in John
earl of Mar, another Richard III., deformed in his person, but
possessed of ambition and an intriguing genius beyond any man
living. He was altogether a time-serving self-interested person, who
could at any time be bought and sold, as he had been before ; and